Professor Biancalana has served on the faculty since 1983, coming to the University of Cincinnati following a Bigelow Fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School. Professor Biancalana chaired the College of Law’s Academic Policy and Curriculum Committee for several years. He also served on and chaired the Library Committee.

Professor Biancalana’s field of research is English legal history, and his articles in that field have won awards.

Recent Publications
Books

The Oxford History of English Law, 1399-1483 (work-in-progress).

The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England, Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Articles

Testamentary Cases in Fifteenth-Century Chancery, (forthcoming in the Legal History Review).

Dower, Fee Tail, Petty Assizes, and Real Actions, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History (forthcoming).

The Legal Framework of Arbitration in Fifteenth-Century England, 47 American Journal of Legal History 347-382 (2005) [2007].

The Origin and Early History of the Writs of Entry, 25 Law & History Review 513-556 (2007).

The Politics and Law of Philoctetes, 17 Law & Literature 155 (2005).

Monetary Penalties in Thirteenth-Century England, 73 Legal History Review 231 (2005).

Contractual Penalties in the King's Court#, 1260-1360,64Cambridge Law Journal 212 (2005)

The Origins and Development of the Penalty Bond with Conditional Defeasance , 26 Journal of Legal History 103(2005).

Book Review, 89 Cath. Hist. Rev. 551 (2003) (reviewing Robert C. Palmer, Selling the Church: The English Parish in Law, Commerce, and Religions, 1350-1550 (2002))

Originalism and The Commerce Clause, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 383 (2002) (symposium)

Actions of Covenant 1200-1330, 20 Law and History Review 1 (2002) (awarded Sutherland Prize by American Society for Legal History).

Thirteenth-Century Custodia, 22 J. of Legal History 14 (2001).

Medieval Uses, in Itinera Fiduciae-Trust and Treuhand in Historical Perspective, (R. H. Helmholz and Reinhard Zimmermann, eds., Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1998).